Its been a heck of a week, but God has taken care of us, albeit not always the way we might have envisioned for ourselves. First our upstairs air conditioner broke , and then Jenny's car died; right in the prime of its life! Jenny and I had been headed out on a date; and I was picking up the baby sitter. Fortunately I was near their house so was able to get a ride back home from a good friend Troy Henry. Granted I did have to wait a while in the warm summer sun for the tow truck. At that point I just thought it was some kind of minor belt failure... Later we would find out that the belt failure cascaded and eventually spun broken parts into the timing belt which caused the engine valves to be destroyed. XG300 you were a nice car while it lasted.

God provided some AC relief via a free window unit that Don found for us, he even drove it up and helped me "rig" it in the window. It will work for now, but for sure isn't a permanent installation LOL God has clearly been taking care of us; its not enough to cool the whole upstairs, but it is keeping the bonus room useable, and we have moved Jordan into the bonus room at nights and for naps. As for us, we are sleeping on an air mattress on the floor of the family room! God has provided several outstanding people who are helping us out with the AC, and hopefully it will be fixed by Monday this coming week! God really is good.

To finish off this week, Friday I took a half day from work. I was going to test drive a ford freestyle that a local dealership had. It was 1000$ out of the top of our budget; I was mostly going to test drive it since carmax had a similar one down in charlotte that they would transfer. I drove, it was really nice, and I told them that if they dropped a thousand off of it, I'd drive it home show Jenny, and buy it if she liked it... the price was already very competitive for all the features, leather, gps nav, DVD, 6 disc CD, rear backup sensors... I figured there was no way they'd knock off a thousand. They came back with a 500 dollar offer... made it intruiging but not enough to delay my departure to go test drive a honda pilot... I told them that and they came down 800; that was enough! Took it home. Jenny loved it, so we are now the proud owner of a fully loaded 2006 Ford Freestyle with only 33k miles on it.